@Patashu The reason I find that most YouTube Alternatives crash and burn is that many of them jump for higher quality videos or larger files. This then turns them into an equally janky version of Vimeo (pre-B2B turn), with a growing userbase of mostly scorned (read: banned/flagged) YouTubers that want to become the big fish in a slowly growing small pond. Blip to Vessel to Vidme. Eventually that VC/investor growth money dries up and/or it's time to pay up.

The first thing to put up would be some payment system that would only give pithy payouts, equal to or worse than MTurk money. Either riding Adsense or another clone will do. Rebooting Project Wonderful for this would be good but is also outside the scope, so the ad service thought can be saved for another day.

Would almost place it mentally to the scrappy temp image hosts or Pastebin clones that are started up by 2 people in like Croatia. They usually last about a year or three, but can easily know their limits.